Alina, Olena, Lana and Jana is a single-channel digital video work and installation. It is a re-imagining of four Eastern European characters that Cubric played as an actress for various UK television and stage productions.
Headway is a large-scale installation formed from the remnants of a year-long performance by Felix Jackson. Throughout 2024, Felix wore one new white sock each day on alternating feet. By the end of the year, 366 socks had been collected, each marked with the traces of daily use.
Penal colony, police state, imperial pawn. From its genesis, Australia has operated as a carceral and militarised state. How are artists responding to a structure that is physical, legal, and material—its legacies and its projections onto other places on the planet? Hijacking, intervention, documentation, glitching—fugitive artistic methods.
Fog of war is a military metaphor that has been adopted as a mechanic in strategy-map-based video games. It appears as a darkened foggy area around a player’s avatar or base, differentiating the unexplored from the explored territory on a map shared with hidden enemies.
Join us from 6-8 pm, for the opening of four new exhibitions including 3 solo exhibitions by Tanya Cubric, Felix Jackson, Samuel Chan and a group exhibition curated by Levent Can Kaya with Sydney Jarrett, Tabitha Lean, Zeinab Mahfoud and Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis.
Join us from 2-4pm on Saturday 18 October for artist talks with the October/November exhibitions, including Levent Can Kaya, Sydney Jarrett, Tabitha Lean, Zeinab Mahfoud, Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis, Tanya Cubric, Felix Jackson and Samuel Chan.
Join us in this new community networking opportunity called Co-working Wednesdays, a low commitment weekly event (during exhibition periods) to be held after business hours on Wednesday from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.
Artwork install 101 will be a hands-on introduction, covering the end-to-end processes of installing and deinstalling 2D artworks in a gallery setting.
Join us from 2-4pm on Saturday 23 August for artist talks with the August/September exhibitions, including Sue Jo Wright, Mitchell Davis, David Horton, Martin John Oldfield, Jingwei Bu and Belinda Yee.
On the day following the opening exhibition, Jingwei Bu will present a one-on-one, silent tea ceremony retrial. This objectless performance invites individual audience members to enter the tea room and sit opposite the artist on a stack of A4 paper, still and present. Together, they share the quiet ritual and the passing of time, creating a space for reflection, intimacy, and presence.
I Am Not My Father is a multigenerational collaboration exploring the complexities of fatherhood. Each artist brings personal experience—ranging from nurturing relationships to those shaped by absence, neglect, or trauma—into a shared conversation through textiles, sculpture, video, and an original score.
‘Labyrinths of Signs’ is a textile installation body of work by Sue Jo Wright, which explores the journey of identity, belonging, and the discovery of community.
Join us from 6-8 pm, for the opening of four new exhibitions including 3 solo exhibitions by Sue Jo Wright, Jingwei Bu, Belinda Yee and a group exhibition with Mitchell Davis, David Horton and Martin John Oldfield.
This exhibition responds to the idea of 'Digital Genocide,' a term coined by Muneera Bano, Principal Research Scientist in Ethics and AI at the CSIRO. It names a hidden violence: the systematic disappearance, distortion, and underrepresentation of cohorts of women in the data that feeds machine learning and artificial intelligence.
We Tea is an immersive installation developed through Bu’s ongoing studio-based tea ceremony practice since 2022. Rooted in intimate gatherings with friends, family, and visitors, each session becomes a durational act of presence where the slow rituals of making and sharing tea quietly document shared time and space.
Come along on the last day of 2025 Firstdraft Fundraiser for a chill day to see artworks on display in the gallery spaces and supporting artist stalls!
Come along to countdown of the last hours of bidding in the 2025 Firstdraft Fundraiser at the Artist Party – featuring music by Rydeen and SOVBLKPSSY from Sunset with Dot Zip on FBi Radio.
Grow your collection and nurture the future of contemporary art 🖼️
We are delighted to announce that the Firstdraft Fundraiser is back and will be online from Monday 28 July and in-person from 1 - 3 August!
Join us from 2-4pm on Saturday 24 May for artist talks with the May/June exhibitions, including Joseph Burgess, Kiera Brew Kurec, Alex Tálamo, Nebbi Boii, Naoise Halloran-Mackay, Emily Greenwood and Fergus Berney-Gibson.
Naoise Halloran-Mackay explores ideas of shelter and the ways in which we may build, seek, or offer it.
Join us from 6-8 pm, for the opening of four new exhibitions including 3 solo exhibitions by Naoise Halloran-Mackay, Emily Greenwood and Fergus Berney-Gibson and a group exhibition with Joseph Burgess, Kiera Brew Kurec, Alex Talamo, Nebbi Boii, Dana Albatrawi & Wirrin Ward-Lowe.
Intricate Rituals traces the uneasy space between boyhood and manhood—where affection becomes obscured by expectation, and kinaesthetic desire is tangled in myth. Through a darkened installation of four sculptural assemblages, the exhibition reframes domestic masculinity as a series of obscure and sacred rituals.
This exhibition considers the function of art in articulating opposition, fostering solidarity and imagining alternative futures.
The series of prideful Tongan flags recontextualizes the Eurocentric standard to fit the Pasifika diaspora’s post-colonial framework. Continuing to unravel ancestral histories through a post-colonial lens as a forgotten Tongan excluded from the culture of the ancestors the work juxtaposes contemporary punk sub- cultural influences from the postmodernist period with ancient ancestral history.
Join us from 2-4pm on Saturday 29 March for artist talks with the artists of the March/April exhibitions, including Tay Haggarty, Abbra Kotlarczyk, Tiana Jefferies, Seren Wagstaff, Amy Sargeant, Annie Monks, Nelson Nghe, Jack Hodges and Nolan Ho Wung Murphy.
Make your body-safe, usable eco pleasure toy while exploring sensory pleasure and the Indigenous practice of inner deep listening through clay.
In an era of increasing polarisation, political, cultural, social, and economic, a question arises: why don’t those seeking genuine change engage more with those who think differently? People often voice their beliefs within familiar circles, both online and in person, reinforcing opposition rather than encouraging understanding.
Join us from 6-8 pm for the opening of four new exhibitions including 3 solo exhibitions by Nelson Nghe, Jack Hodges and Nolan Ho Wung Murphy and a group exhibition with Tay Haggarty, Abbra Kotlarczyk, Tiana Jefferies, Seren Wagstaff, Amy Sargeant and Annie Monks.
Garden Variety Dykes is a group show inspired by the PDF of the same name; ‘Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening’ edited by Irene Reti and Valerie Jean Chase in 1994. This exhibition dives into queer ecologies, puts forward questions surrounding the continuation of a queer linage in climate activism and explores sapphic yearning in the garden space.
Nelson Nghe aims to illuminate the often "invisible" nature of gambling harm, especially its impact on loved ones. Through evocative found objects and images, Nghe reimagines hidden domestic moments, exploring the emotional toll that gambling harm inflicts on those indirectly affected.
Join us from 2-4pm on Saturday 1 February for FREE artist talks with the artists of the January/February exhibitions, including Zi Qin, Dean Quilin Li, Jincheng Deng, Erin Hallyburton, carolyn craig and Cecilia Sordi Campos.
ALGAEIC INTENT investigates the ways in which Algae thrive in the wreckage of capitalism (it grows in response to the excesses of agriculture and suffocates fish via depletion of oxygen) and how this can operate as a mirror/reflective distortion of our intermingled biological actions and porous relations to matter.
Motherhood and fertility have been extensively represented in creative practice for both their pictorial qualities and in the documentation of lived experiences. These representations continue to play an important role in shaping public perceptions of womanhood, while infertility is underrepresented, silenced or deemed contentious – often framed in terms of lack or failure.
Join Firstdraft for our January/February exhibition openings.
This project reassembles everyday life scenes in a conned space to generate an analog of a nocturnal urban park, reflecting the ongoing colonisation of the late night.
Press against; Soften into explores fat as a material, an identity and a form of embodiment. The exhibition responds to conventions in contemporary art that distinguish between normal and fat bodies.
